President Obama said businesses that can't afford to offer health care with all the expensive new regulations would be required to "chip in to help cover the cost of their workers." Does that mean he supports the 8 percent payroll tax included in H.R. 3200? That's a huge job-killer at a time our economy can least afford it.

For a back-of-the-envelope estimate of what this tax would mean, we modeled the impact on a static basis of the phased-in 8-percent payroll tax in H.R. 3200. (Big thanks to Joe Coletti at the John Locke Foundation for doing the calculations.)

It was puzzling last night when the whole chamber erupted in applause when President Obama said that patients should have health insurance choices. It was puzzling because at least 87 Democrats are AGAINST choice. They want us to adopt a Canadian-style, no-choice, single-payer system where everyone is in a government plan. The straight up Washington takeover of health care we keep being told isn't what Democrats want. The bill is called HR676. As of today, these are the co-sponsors listed on Thomas.

Can anyone explain why were they clapping?

Daily News has now posted an update clarifying that while they are providing Van Jones with office space, they have not hired him back. So he is physically back at CAP, but not officially working for CAP at the present time.

This is my statement from this morning, which was based on the early, less accurate report.

Now that Jones has resigned, we need to follow through with two critical policy victories. First, stop cap-and-trade, which could send these groups trillions, and second repeal the unspent portion of the stimulus bill, which stands to give them billions.

Phil Kerpen
- FOXNews.com
- September 06, 2009

Now that Jones has resigned, we need to follow through with two critical policy victories. First, stop cap-and-trade, which could send these groups trillions, and second repeal the unspent portion of the stimulus bill, which stands to give them billions.

Phil Kerpen
- FOXNews.com
- September 06, 2009